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4. What Do Grocery Store Prices and Heart Surgery Have in Common?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Are You Going to Offer Cardiac Bipast Surgery?

The stakes are even higher in this older population. You would hope this decision whether or not to offer this surgery to someone is something that's being dictated purely by objective probabilities, only the facts. But ultimately, i think there is always a gray area. There's always this fuzzy sub population for which it's not really clear. And so that's where i see these heristics really operating and having the biggest effects.

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